Ang-151 — Chapter 45
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
They wear and eat the gifts from the Lord;
how can laziness help them, O mother? ||1||
Forgetting her Husband Lord, and attaching herself to other affairs,
the soul-bride throws away the precious jewel in exchange for a mere shell. ||1||Pause||
Forsaking God, she is attached to other desires.
But who has gained honor by saluting the slave? ||2||
They consume food and drink, delicious and sublime as ambrosial nectar.
But the dog does not know the One who has bestowed these. ||3||
Says Nanak, I have been unfaithful to my own nature.
Please forgive me, O God, O Searcher of hearts. ||4||76||145||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
I meditate on the Feet of God within my mind.
This is my cleansing bath at all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage. ||1||
Meditate in remembrance on the Lord every day, O my Siblings of Destiny.
Thus, the filth of millions of incarnations shall be taken away. ||1||Pause||
Enshrine the Lord's Sermon within your heart,
and you shall obtain all the desires of your mind. ||2||
Redeemed is the life, death and birth of those,
within whose hearts the Lord God abides. ||3||
Says Nanak, those humble beings are perfect,
who are blessed with the dust of the feet of the Holy. ||4||77||146||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
They eat and wear what they are given, but still, they deny the Lord.
The messengers of the Righteous Judge of Dharma shall hunt them down. ||1||
They are unfaithful to the One, who has given them body and soul.
Through millions of incarnations, for so many lifetimes, they wander lost. ||1||Pause||
Such is the lifestyle of the faithless cynics;
everything they do is evil. ||2||
Within their minds, they have forgotten that Lord and Master,
Who created the soul, breath of life, mind and body. ||3||
Their wickedness and corruption have increased - they are recorded in volumes of books.
O Nanak, they are saved only by the Mercy of God, the Ocean of peace. ||4||
O Supreme Lord God, I have come to Your Sanctuary.
Break my bonds, and carry me across, with the Lord's Name. ||1||Second Pause||78||147||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
For their own advantage, they make God their friend.
He fulfills all their desires, and blesses them with the state of liberation. ||1||
Everyone should make Him such a friend.
No one goes away empty-handed from Him. ||1||Pause||
For their own purposes, they enshrine the Lord in the heart;
all pain, suffering and disease are taken away. ||2||
Their tongues learn the habit of chanting the Lord's Name,
and all their works are brought to perfection. ||3||
So many times, Nanak is a sacrifice to Him;
fruitful is the Blessed Vision, the Darshan, of my Lord of the Universe. ||4||79||148||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Millions of obstacles are removed in an instant,
for those who listen to the Sermon of the Lord, Har, Har, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||
They drink in the sublime essence of the Lord's Name, the Ambrosial Elixir.
Meditating on the Lord's Feet, hunger is taken away. ||1||Pause||
The treasure of all happiness, celestial peace and poise,
are obtained by those, whose hearts are filled with the Lord God. ||2||
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”
Psalm 23:1
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
Luke 6:36
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Snp 1.8
“As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
The Path to Wisdom
Proverbs 4:7
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
Dhammapada 20:282
“Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes.”
Analects 2:11
“If you study the past and use it to understand the present, you are worthy of being a teacher.”
Tao Te Ching 33
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
Humility & Surrender
Bhagavad Gita 18:66
“Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions; do not fear.”
Matthew 5:5
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Tao Te Ching 22
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
Quran 2:45
“Seek help through patience and prayer. It is indeed exacting, but not for those who are humble.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Genesis 1:3
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”